Presonus Studio 192 26x32 USB 3.0 Audio Interface & Studio Command Center

After struggling with misery inducing M-Audio drivers, I am so pleased to share my hard won dollars with a company that stays ahead of the curve. Don't get me wrong, I liked my M-Audio Quad - built like a tank with oodles of connectivity - but the driver are usually very late, and the last two attempts to update caused more problems than they cured. Though it's still listed as a current product, in reality M-Audio looks like it's selling down existing stock and not even working on updates.This Presonus unit is very well behaved - it's core audio compliant, meaning that all basic functions work without a driver. A driver is needed to reach the onboard plugins and to enable seamless transition of the controls of the onboard plugins from the unit to your computer or iPad.I already use Studio One Pro, but the very competent "Artist" version is supplied. As a former Logic user, I still have lots of files in that format, and I find this interfaces works seamlessly with both Logic (and by extension Garageband) and Finale. For composing and notation, as I'm insufficiently anal (in the Freudian sense) to continue using Finale any more, I switched to Notion a few years back, which works seamlessly with both Studio One and this unit.I've used all the connectors just to see how things work and the only thing on my wish list is gigbit ethernet connectivity. As a composer of classical and some electronica I'm very picky about the pre's I use. I want flat, neutral pre's and Presonus supplies pre's that meet my demands. Colour and texture are best added to a clean capture of a performance. The Studio 192 never leaves me feeling that I'll need to clean a performance, be it live or in my small studio/workroom. Some of my orchestral work require as many as 120 tracks of which only 1 to 3 will be recorded - the rest coming from East West orchestral components. Playback through the 192 is very clean. While I'm still learning about upsampling, I record mics at the highest bit rate possible, and the Studio 192 proves it's mettle - recording 2 tracks at 192 hz direct from mic to the Presonus without an e xternal mixing is very easy - as long as you're using good clean mics appropriate to the task, and have properly set levels, you'll have a remarkable recording. You can't make poor performances better, as all the warts and wobbles will be laid bare, but a capable musician will sound incredible - as if you're in the room (which you can be, thanks to UC surface or Studio One Remote which gives me touchpad control over the Studio 102 via an iPad - I use a 12.9 iPad Pro which makes handling "knobs and sliders" much easier.Every time I read the manual I pick up something new that improves playback, recording or my DAW controls. This unit is far and away the cleanest and easiest to use audio interface I've used- placing it at the head of an august lineup. I like these pre's for their solid, quiet and above all unflavoured sound as much as those of an RME Babyface, those used in the glorious Antelope MP8 and much more than those used by Universal Audio. Obviously this moderate dollar interface doesn't have either the capacity or the versatility of these high end boxes, but the sound from the 2 mic pre's, and those of the two 8 pre expansion boxes (DigiMax DP88) connected by adat (which I've heard in a studio, but do not yet own) is exactly what I look for: clean, uncoloured, relatively flat recordings from low bass to high. If you want a Rock n Roll flavour, or the tube sound that worked so well for 50's Jazz recordings, that can be added by in the box or in your DAW using the solid collection of plugins provided.

This product sound wise is ok. Presonus needs to take a hard look at the features of their competition for things they have left out (like an audio matrix). As for customer support, forget it. The site is hard to get to so you can report problems and sometimes it just closes your report as soon as you enter the problem, basically no support. I would highly recommend the RME stuff as I have used them for many years and everything just works. I made the mistake of just wanting to try something else and should have not. Presonus "assumes" you will only be using their DAW program and left out some key features needed by pro digital audio users.

this unit is incredible! the sound is nice and clean, the converters are very clear and the monitor mixing is so free flowing, you can route anything to this bad boy with the Universal Control app. The integration with Studio one makes your work flow and mixing with ease and worry free. Overall this is a great piece of equipment and it was worth every penny, plus at this price you can't beat it, this is one of the top 3 interfaces under 1000$ right now.

Great product. Don't hesitate.

Absolutely worth the price. Super clean mic preamp with super low latency. USB 3.0. A powerful driver installed with all functions you may need, such as, EQ, compressor and even reverb effects. You may extend it with another 16 channels with ADAT I/O. You can't see its only 599. It's a no-brainer.

I had the opportunity to test a brand new USB 3.0 recording interface this week. With all the work I've been doing on the Neon Noir, I'm constantly having to to plug and unplug external instruments and even worse, record them each one at a time. I figured I would try utilizing a PreSonus Studio 192 26x32 , which is a couple of steps up in terms of inputs from the PreSonus Firebox I've had for years.Hook up and drive installation was easy enough, but when it came down to performance; it just couldn't cut it. My latency in my DAW increased and some of my beefier plug ins started buffering out pretty badly. I switched back to my Fire Wire interface and had no issues.While its been confirmed from a few outlets that USB 3.0 isn't all its cut out to be for recording interfaces, I figured it would still beat out Fire Wire. That's not the case.Logically, the next step would be to go to Thunderbolt, but that's not within the budget for the project. For now, I'll be adding a PreSonus Fire Pod to the mix for additional inputs and see how that goes, as its stays within the Fire Wire format.